‘A sound archivist told me he and his colleagues could earn more in the private sector but they work here for less pay because “we believe in what we do.”’ Anna Aslanyan on the picket line at the British Library, from the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

Tonight I went to the opera and then on the tube home was in the same carriage as a Man With A Jar Full Of Bees

Opening soon!

What’s up London are we getting TWO flying ant days this year

150% TARIFFS ON ALL MEETINGS THAT COULD HAVE BEEN AN EMAIL

Toast a crumpet in his honour, on the fires of a riot

It’s crunch time (I’m eating toast)

An incredible policy, I can only hope it goes through as it would make such an immense difference to so, so many.

Y’all come quick, the museums are doing super bowls again

Happy large boulder the size of a small boulder day!

Go see it! Open until 2 March!

Heaven forbid women have hobbies

Love listening to my real life husband complaining about his imaginary game wife

Given a whole bunch of recent (badly paid) library postings, I gotta give the Library of Congress its due. Its Reference Librarian (Hebraic Section) is listed at a range of 101-131K. www.loc.gov/item/careers... 👀 Can hiring committees/finance peeps please take a lesson from LC??

meep! they don't love you like I love you

Frohes neues!!

if you’re cold, they’re cold. put them in your pockets

Man that hole in the ozone layer is Real* *I am an idiot and got sunburned sitting outside in New Zealand for 30min

Every museum should have a Little Guys Tour, and at the end of the tour you can buy reproductions of all the little guys

They made omegaverse fanfic, god bless al gore’s internet and every person on it i am WHEEZING

me: i have a bunch of anxiety rn brain: how bout a coffee me: idk sounds like a bad idea brain: iced coffee me: ok yeah that makes more sense

Some incredible silly medieval manuscript stickers made by Marina Ćorić (there are also murder rabbits) www.instagram.com/marinchy.ill...

Looks like we've finally figured out the function of the VOYNICH Manuscript! nerdwax.com/products/voy... @lisafdavis.bsky.social

Feeling fancy, making my own coffee blends* this morning *mixing two bags together because there wasn’t enough in the first bag

There are two things that can prevent something like this from happening: an ironclad deed of gift or a decent ground to air defense system.

Y'all, I can't believe I finally have a chance to say this. This is an heir raid. www.avweb.com/aviation-new...

Beyond the fact that people would go absolutely feral, why aren’t there post offices and little grocery stores airside in airport terminals? (Specifically Trader Joe’s so I can get snacks)

Infinite thanks to @magnifyzoology.bsky.social for doing this every year!!! It’s such a huge effort and is a great chance to discover new things about your work, approaches, ideas, and to find colleagues across the museum sector. 🥰

#museum30 day 30: why museums? Being able to tell and share stories, either from yesterday or thousands of years ago- from the story of the object to how it was made, who made it, and what we can learn from that today. And because we keep learning new things all the time!

Hugo Christmas Ball takes his place for another year

Just heard @shaneboyle.bsky.social say ‘I love you!’ out of nowhere which was so sweet! But he was saying it to Jayden Reed of the Packers while watching the Thanksgiving day game. I got ‘oh! And you, too!’

A reminder that you probably need to clean your glasses. It’s foggy but not *that* foggy. And the fog should be outside.

Butter Advent Calendar just dropped.

#museum30 day 29: hope We’re always hoping for a better week, month, year, one more calm, more organised, more measured, with no catastrophes, etc., but they rarely seem to come. Instead, I hope we can at least find a precious work/life balance and claw back some time, reinforcing our boundaries

#museum30 day 28: letter What letters were written here? This is Jane Austen’s portable ‘writing-box’, given by her father in 1794. Passed down through her family and presented to the British Library in 1999, it is shown with a pair of her spectacles and an ink pot Add 86841

Happy Thanksgiving

#museum30 day 27: discovery I visited the space shuttle Discovery last month with my family while visiting DC, and now have a 7yo now very into space after having a brief existential crisis in the IMAX watching a film on space travel. airandspace.si.edu/collection-o...

Sometimes you think you’re okay and don’t miss gardening but then you realise you are staring out the window softly singing ‘Someday’ from West Side Story to the herbs on the sill as you gently stroke their leaves

#museum30 day 26: handle Saw this lovely handle on a restaurant door when we had to break for lunch in the middle of a long museum visit!

Shame on the California Academy of Sciences for cutting the youth program because the kids passed out flyers supporting the Museum Workers' Union, who have been without a contract since unionizing last year.

#museum30 day 25: uncanny Henry wrote a secret note to Anne, Anne wrote a secret note in reply, and her death trundled forward - one of the more powerful and unnerving manuscripts I’ve held… Kings MS 9, Book of Hours, Use of Sarum (Anne Boleyn's Book of Hours)

AAAHHHH

#museum30 day 24: last 12 mos I’ve gone back & forth & back again, de/installed very cool stuff, dealt with a salvage scenario (all fine), gone to ERC, got tipsy in airport lounges before 12, bleached my hair, decided I should stop bleaching my hair, saw Chappell Roan, cried, done many spreadsheets

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Archivist: either way, it is not permitted in the Reading Room

optimist: the cup is half full pessimist: the cup is half empty me: which one of you bastards drank half my coffee

Optimist: the cup is 1/2 full Pessimist: the cup is 1/2empty Registrar: what cup? Where did you get it? How did it get here? Do you have a loan agreement? Insurance certificate? Condition report? Provenance, clear due diligence? Please tell me it doesn’t have liquid near collection items, please…

Thinking of packing and transporting these in the years 1886-1936 all the way from Dresden to Cambridge makes me hella twitchy but like wow